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1366 points aleksi | 2 comments | 14 Oct 24 15:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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VoxPelli ◴[14 Oct 24 17:06 UTC] No.41839491[source]▶
Is there any message from the Flipper Zero people that this is actually their device?

It’s not mentioned on https://www.flipperdevices.com/, neither on https://flipperzero.one/ or their Instagram?

They have been plagued with peopling scamming people in their name before

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zhovner ◴[14 Oct 24 17:31 UTC] No.41839748[source]▶
Hi, Pavel Zhovner here, Flipper Devices CEO. Yes it's our product, but it's not ready for announcement yet, so we keep it secret.

Right now, we are working on implementing Matter smart home protocol and will slightly change the product concept.

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poincaredisk ◴[14 Oct 24 19:24 UTC] No.41840951[source]▶
Side note to people reading this: in general, when suspecting a scam, don't blindly trust anyone who says "I'm ... and I confirm this is OK". This may be the same very person who you're suspecting of original scam ;). Not a theory, I have cases looks this every other week in my dayjob.

In this case I believe the post is legit.

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dgacmu ◴[14 Oct 24 22:07 UTC] No.41842562[source]▶
Or he's been playing the long game and fake-submitted the Show HN post for flipper zero four years ago just to be ready for this day. ;-)

(or the account was compromised, of course)

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bombcar ◴[15 Oct 24 01:16 UTC] No.41843967[source]▶
Even sneakier - he designed and built an entire company around the Flipper Zero just to be able to fake this. For real.
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1. winwang ◴[15 Oct 24 05:49 UTC] No.41845316{3}[source]▶
Idea of Flipper Zero was to lower our guard and trust their company with security, while actually shipping hardware with backdoors -- which the Flipper Zero will, for some reason, not be able to detect.
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2. Cthulhu_ ◴[15 Oct 24 11:57 UTC] No.41847593[source]▶
The Flipper Zero is the backdoor, on the Day of Reckoning everyone's Flipper will emit a signal that will drive people into a murderous rage and detonate all nukes while "zhovner", if that is his real name, hides in a mountain lair with a selection of hand-picked people that he has Chosen to repopulate the earth with. Once the billions have perished, his buddy Musk will launch his fleet of Starships full of handpicked seed ships to spread throughout the solar system and galaxy to spread humanity across the universe like a disease.

or something.